Whiteboard: Let it Shine!

This Sunday we cap off our Stewardship Campaign with Dedication Sunday!

For our Stewardship theme this year we selected "Let It Shine!" and we have been using our new Stained Glass Panels as a guiding visual aid. Just as the light shines through those panels revealing their intricacy and beauty, the light of God shines through us revealing the power and purpose that we know through Christ.

So I just couldn't help myself with the Whiteboard this week. I just had to fill the Whiteboard with my own (crude) rendering of the Stained Glass Panels.

Not bad, right? I preached a few weeks ago that when I look at those three panels I see big, vibrant swaths of color shining down from the top of each panel intersecting with smaller rays of color bursting up from the bottom. I like to think that the big, vibrant rays coming down from the top represent the blessings of God raining down on us, and that the rays bursting up from the bottom represent our faithful response to God’s abundant love.

Won't you help us to "Let It Shine!" in the coming year by supporting our Stewardship Pledge Drive this year! Please join us this Sunday as we hear the holy words of scripture, celebrate the abundance of God's blessings, and dedicate our pledges for the coming year!

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2 Corinthians 4:5-10

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.

Matthew 5:13-16

‘You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. 

‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden.No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.